Star of Siam Reviews Summary

Category: Thai restaurant Keswick

Address: 89 Main St, Keswick, CA12 5DT, United Kingdom

Phone: +441768771444

Rating: 4.3
based on 137 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food here was delicious and reasonably priced, especially compared to other restaurants in the area."
  • "The tofu and vegetable jungle curry was very spicy but delicious with lots of ginger."
  • "All of them were delicious and will certainly be trying Thai food again thanks to these people."
  • "Probably the best Thai food we have tried (and we have tried a lot of different thai restaurants)."
  • "The pineapple curry was absolutely delicious and the highlight of the meal."
  • "All the food tasted very authentically Thai, properly flavoured and suitable portion size."
  • "The Thai Fishcakes are delicious and I would highly recommend them as a starter. For mains I had Red Curry Chicken which was bursting with fresh flavours."

Cons:

  • "The food was not seasoned and tasted quite bland."
  • "We found the tom yum seafood soup rather bland and mostly mushroom."
  • "It was cold, flavourless and really salty."
  • "The vegetable Pad Thai was completely flavourless, sticky rice was still in cling film wrap and the tofu green curry had a layer of oil and didn't come with tofu!"
  • "We shared a chicken satay starter which tasted frozen, the satay sauce was watery, no visible peanuts & sorry to say the cabbage seemed off & appeared rather brown."
  • "The papaya salad didn't taste of papaya much and was unsubtly dressed with too much fish sauce and chili."
  • "The banana in coconut soup dessert was ultra salty - so much salt it would have seemed excessive even in a savoury dish."

Service

Pros:

  • "Great service. Owner was there and came over to chat and ask if we were enjoying our visit."
  • "The staffs were all very attentive and nice."
  • "Waiter was helpful and friendly."
  • "Friendly staff."
  • "Staff very friendly and attentive."
  • "The table service was attentive and the staff are very polite and welcoming."
  • "Staff very friendly and hard working, food delicious hot and delivered on time."

Cons:

  • "The only downside was the service was very slow (plates not moved from table, no table checking, had to go and get someone for the bill etc.)"
  • "The service is very slow. We arrived at 8 pm for our meal. We were waiting around 30 minutes just for our drinks and around 1 hour and 30 minutes for our starters."
  • "It took 1 hour and 40 minutes between our starter and main course."
  • "Online ordering system gives a collection time but food was not ready for another 15 minutes after that."
  • "Most of the staff was decent, with the exception of one or two."
  • "The young waiters didn't remove our pile of dirty dishes when we'd finished despite being at the table multiple times."
  • "Service was patchy, it was a fairly busy time on Saturday night."

Value

Pros:

  • "The pickup was ready bang on time and the food was decent and reasonably priced."
  • "Prices were reasonable."
  • "Very good value too."
  • "Some of the best Thai food that we had had the pleasure of having at a really competitive price!"
  • "The prices were reasonable too, but no big surprise as we were outside of London."
  • "Value for money is unquestionable, I would have paid double for what I received."
  • "Reasonably priced Thai food in the centre of Keswick."

Cons:

  • "We complained and asked for a refund, thankfully they gave us £10 back for the mix up with the vegan curry but refused any more than that despite it being inedible and thrown away."
  • "Had my first take away from here, not impressed with portions."
  • "The portion sizes were small for the money charged so I don’t feel it was good value."
  • "Very disappointing meal. Waited over 90 minutes for our main course."
  • "The Thai red curry was a small portion."
  • "Food was warm not hot, noodles came when meal was nearly finished."
  • "Complete waste of money."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "The ambience is refreshing, providing a cosy family atmosphere. Great to enjoy with your loved ones."
  • "A hidden lunchtime gem! Wandered past on Wednesday lunchtime and was pleasantly surprised to find them open and serving a three course Thai lunch menu for £10!"
  • "Very tasty and authentic food + the restaurant has a great relaxing ambiance, we really enjoyed our meal here."
  • "The ambience of this place is that you are instantly transported to Thailand with the lighting, the music and paintings/ statues etc."
  • "The restaurant has a great relaxing ambiance, we really enjoyed our meal here."
  • "Family friendly, comfortable and relaxed - definitely one to return to next time we're in the area."
  • "Very popular Thai restaurant with good food, waiting staff sufficiently attentive without rushing you and a nice ambience."

Cons:

  • "Very weird atmosphere overall."
  • "Restaurant is a bit dirty, spiderwebs could be seen around our table, there was a large damp mark on the ceiling and a gigantic fake tree with dust on it."
  • "Lovers of thai food and Reading previous reviews we decided to eat at this restaurant however we were told after that the restaurant had been recently taken over.which would explain the previous good reviews. I would not recommend this place to anyone dark dingy ran out of ingredients and the Tofu was off!!!"
  • "The restaurant is much bigger than it looks from outside."
  • "Maybe a bit pricey but that's to be expected for central Keswick."

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